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Goodbye, Grover’s CornersI saw a really terrible movie this weekend called Stardust. I thought that it would be terrific since the cast is star-studded and mostly because it was based on a novel by the very clever Neil Gaiman (who I am a big fan of, Sandman, American Gods, Good Omens & the Brakiri Day of the Dead episode of Babylon 5 for fans in the know). But alas, the movie sucked (although Deniro was funny. Yarg!!).But the movie also stars Claire Daines who I used to be a big fan of in the series My So Called Life. And then I got to remembering that the finale of that show was one of the best ever simply because it was not really meant to be the finale. But, thats how life is. The series ended with a telling of Thornton Wilders play, Our Town. That the series ended like this just stunned me. It went like this if you care to know.Katimski : Oh, you can remember it like this: If you keep going downstage, youre going to fall _down_. Okay? Oh, oh, oh,and...could you........... stop acting? Please?Rayanne : What?Katimski : Stop acting. Theres really no need for it. You see, Emily is dead. The life she had is over. Thats a prettybig deal. I mean...oh, gee whiz, she is just nowrealizing how precious every moment of that life reallywas. And that she never really appreciated what she had.Just imagine...what that must feel like, Rayanne.[pause.:]Rayanne : [sadly:] I cant go on, it goes so fast, we dont have time to look at one another. I didnt realize. So allthat was going on, and...we never noticed. Take me back.Back to the hill, to my grave. But first, wait! One lastlook. Goodbye. Goodbye, world. Goodbye, Grovers Corners.Momma and Poppa. Goodbye to clocks ticking. Do any humanbeings ever realize life while they live it? Every every minute?Abyssinia : No. Saints and poets, maybe they do so.Rayanne : Im ready to go back.Angela : [crying, chin trembling:] Were you happy?Rayanne : [sadly:] No. I should have listened to you. But thats all human beings are. Just blind people.[Rayanne turns and walks away. Angela turns the other way and exits:]I remember seeing this play in high school and not thinking very much of it. I guess I was just too young to understand. But seeing this one axis-shifting scene, the climax of the play delivered in its most seemingly natural context, that of a high school drama production, really made me change my mind. For some reason, after seeing Claire Daines in that movie, I was thinking over and over about that Our Town scene and lamenting that someone writing for television didnt have the wit or the where-with-all to try something so simple and wonderful like that again. But, was it the storyline of the series that made that one scene feel even more impacting, or did the scene from Wilders play bring classic relevance to a silly teen-drama? Ah-ha.I went to the bookstore that night and I bought a copy of the play. In the introduction that very feeling is addressed, how many young people are introduced to this play when they are deficient in experience and short on attention. People tend to lump it into a Kapra or Rockwell kind of kitsch. At least, I fell into that trap.But now, reading it again closer to 40 makes me understand what a wonderful work of art that play really is. The introduction calls it a great American play, perhaps THE great American play. And then the writer of the introduction goes on to explain how he experienced the play back in 1988 or 89 with Spalding Gray as the omniscient Stage Manager. Wow.Wow. Just wow!!After youve been blessed with a little perspective (read also age and experience), every single meaning in the play that went right over your head at 17 hits you right between the eyes AND STICKS...like the banana in Swimming to Cambodia. So, while I read the play I imagined Gray in that role and let Thornton Wilder take me to Grovers Corners for the mundane drama that is everyday life, for the metaphors that still resound today.And I loved it.I loved every character.Even the school teacher (didnt see that one coming, did you Dan?).I loved everything they did and everything they said.That a character can come in, be given all the aspirations and talents in the world then be destroyed by a few words from the Stage Manager dumbfounds me. How terrible, how casual, how like real life.Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?No. The saints and poets, maybe. They do some.At the end of the Brakiri Day of the Dead episode written by Neil Gaiman, Mr. Morden says, One does not go to the dead for wisdom. It seems that Thornton Wilder would disagree.
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